The Program in International Law seeks to foster a sense of community among those
students and faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law who are interested in
international law. The Program, funded by the Law School and directed by Professor John Setear, seeks to
foster this sense of community by:

bringing speakers to the Law School with practical experience in international law and
policy, and

providing on-line materials to inform and assist those students at the Law School
interested in international law.

Generally

The Program in International Law seeks to bring to the Law School speakers of general
appeal to those students and faculty with an interest in international law. The
Program emphasizes speakers with practical experience in formulating international law and
policy. The Program typically seeks the co-sponsorship of the J.B. Moore Society for International
Law, the student international-law society, for all of the Program's speakers.

2000-2001 Academic Year

The Program has not chosen its speakers for the 2000-2001 Academic Year. Please
feel free to e-mail Professor Setear with
suggestions.

You may wish to view last year's list of speakers and
topics. Last year, the fall's speakers focused on the transition from
authoritarian rule to democratic rule in the wake of widespread human-rights abuses, and
on the interaction among law, force, and arms control. The spring's speakers focused
on international trade law. The Program has not chosen a focus for either semester
of the upcoming academic year.

Generally

The Programs second method for fostering a sense of community among those at the
Law School who are interested in international law is to make on-line information
available that is of particular interest to Law School students studying international
law.

Last year, the Program constructed (and currently maintains) a set of highly organized
pages of links for students conducting research on international legal topics who wish to
examine the international
political context and historical
background of their topics.

1999-2000 Academic Year

In conjunction with the Communications Office of the Law School, the Program intends
during the 1999-2000 Academic Year to make available an on-line, hypertext version of the
in-progress print brochure, "International Law at the University of Virginia Law
School."

The Program also intends to place on-line a variety of materials related to last fall's
seminar, "International Law and the Nobel Peace Prize." The goal of this
project is to allow those considering application to, or attendance at, the University of
Virginia School of Law to see some of the inputs and outputs of a law-school seminar.

Third, the Program in International Law intends to collaborate on Web-based projects
with the Law School's new center on environmental law and policy, which will be directed
by Professor Jon Cannon. That center will include some attention to problems of
international environmental law and policy, an area that seems especially likely to
provide the opportunity for fruitful collaboration between the center and the Program.